The NSA is the agency responsible for gathering electronic intelligence on behalf of the United States.Ī former NSA employee said Kaspersky's analysis was correct, and that people still in the intelligence agency valued these spying programs as highly as Stuxnet.Īnother former intelligence operative confirmed that the NSA had developed the prized technique of concealing spyware in hard drives, but said he did not know which spy efforts relied on it. The firm declined to publicly name the country behind the spying campaign, but said it was closely linked to Stuxnet, the NSA-led cyberweapon that was used to attack Iran's uranium enrichment facility. The targets included government and military institutions, telecommunication companies, banks, energy companies, nuclear researchers, media, and Islamic activists, Kaspersky said.
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